Some of Pioli's draft picks concern me but its a "In Pioli we trust" mentality for me right now. I just can't believe that all that success in NE was because of Bellicheck. I like his mentality and approach, so far.

Haley conerced me because he was the NFL flavor of the month after the Super Bowl but after I read more about that guy, he just might work out after all. Pioli rode with the guy on road trips to scout players, worked with him as a coach, got to know him as a person and evaluate his coaching knowledge way before this level. Pioli picked him, so that enough for me, right now. He's defintely got the NFL background. How cool would that have been to watch pre-draft film of Lynn Swan at 11 years old with your Dad. We tried having a "players" coach. That didn't work out so well. Why not give a Parcells disciple and disipline approach a try?

Which ain't to bad. Hopefully we have learned that we need a kicker that can kick a 30 yd. field goal and a more balanced team approach, that if your game plan hasn't worked in the first half, come up with a new one at half time.

How many more lessons about the playoffs do we need to learn the hard way?

I figure good or bad the team is going to improve greatly in year two because everyone will still be bought into the system and the conditioning will be producing results. The question, will the team still believe in year three?